Environment
Nzambi Matee is a Kenyan of the mountains of discarded oil drums, laundry buckets, yoghurt tubs and other trash being shredded into colourful flakes at her Nairobi factory. She is a 30-year-old engineer and inventor that has discovered a way to recycle tonnes of plastic destined for landfill into eco-friendly […]
When the news of the new Navy vessel RFNS Puamau had grounded itself on the reef in Fulaga, social media erupted with questions on how this happened. Whilst not a comprehensive explanation this short video from Leo Williams Vanualailai who is an expert on GIS does at least provide some clue as to what may […]
19-year-old North Territory teen Keegan Payne went fishing with his family on Sunday (28-04) and hooked himself a Barramundi. But, this was no ordinary barramundi, this young lad caught himself a million dollar fish. The 67cm barra which had been tagged as part of a nine-year-long Million Dollar Fish angling competition, in the […]
We so often hear about the negative aspects of social media that it can be easy to forget that it can also be used for good. As a tool to garner support at a grassroots level, nothing else comes close in terms of effectiveness. This was the case when X user @Vive_Fj (pictured above […]
The islands of the Pacific are the smallest emitters of carbon dioxide in the world but the effects on us are the greatest. According to Tiana Miller, the pictures below tell a very, very powerful story of how climate change affects us and will affect our children even more. This is what she posted on […]
That’s how a man described the reaction to his rescue of a sheep, stranded on a rock by the tide. Chris Oxlade-Arnott made headlines across the world after scaling jagged rocks with the ewe slung over his back. The experienced climber spotted the animal at the bottom of a cliff while walking in Devon, England, […]
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Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam burst and floods part of the country particularly down river. When the dam burst authorities knew that it would be a disaster. As reported by the BBC, the Kakhovka dam is so gigantic that locals refer to it as the Kakhovka Sea. The destruction of the massive dam released vast amounts of […]
The first case of a crocodile who made herself pregnant has been identified at a zoo in Costa Rica. She produced a foetus that was 99.9% genetically identical to herself. The phenomenon of “virgin birth” has been found in species of birds, fish and other reptiles, but never before in crocodiles. The egg was laid […]
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